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Firefighters battle raging blaze on South Africa's Table Mountain

The Table Mountain. /CFP A large contingent of firefighters are battling a raging blaze on South African landmark tourist attraction Table Mountain, which overlooks the city of Cape Town. The

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Mexico's new airport has become a political flashpoint

02:49 As air travel around the world begins to reopen, countries are competing for the business of turning their cities into transit hubs.In Mexico City, where the capital's new airpor

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New art institute in Shanghai welcomes first students

A century ago, it took young Chinese artists around 50 days to sail from Shanghai to France to pursue their dreams of art. Many of them later became esteemed figures of the 20th-century Chinese art, s

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Musk's SpaceX wins Pentagon award for missile tracking satellites

Elon Musk's SpaceX won a $149-million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Monday, in the company's first government cont

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Delta to add 2 China-U.S. weekly passenger flights

Delta Air Lines will add two more weekly flights between China and the United States starting from August 24, the airline said Thursday.The move is aimed at meeting inc

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U.S. to suspend charter flights to Cuba

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press briefing in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 5, 2020. /Xinhua The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday ca

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Air China flight linking Chengdu, Frankfurt resumes operation

A direct flight operated by China's flag carrier Air China departing from the western Chinese city of Chengdu landed at Frankfurt Airport on Thursday afternoon, marking

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China sees recovering air travel demands

China's air travel demand has recovered significantly since June with a continuous increase in the volume of flights, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of

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Joe Biden won't travel to Milwaukee to accept Democratic nomination

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in this still image taken from a video released April 25, 2019. /Reuters United States

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Somalia resumes international flights after four-month suspension

A photo showing troops guarding Barawe Airport in Somalia. /Social Media Somalia resumed international flights to and from the Horn of African nation on Monday after four months of disruptions

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Kenya records highest single day COVID-19 deaths

Health workers help each other as they remove their Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), after the cremation of the body of Prof. Charles Kariuki who died due to COVID-19, at a crematorium in Nai

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Kenya allows resumption of international travel

Kenya Airways planes seen at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Saturday 1 August 2020. /Robert Nagila Kenya on Saturday allowed international flights to land at the Jomo Kenyatta Inte

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China urges travel businesses, tourists to amicably settle disputes amid epidemic

Chinese authorities have urged travel businesses and tourists to settle contract disputes due to the COVID-19 epidemic, and corresponding prevention and control measur

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China's Heilongjiang reports 2 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases

Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reported two asymptomatic COVID-19 cases Monday, local health authorities said Tuesday. The two patients are a couple, and the

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Hong Kong to use community isolation facility to receive patients as COVID-19 cases hit new high

Hong Kong's Hospital Authority announced on Thursday to start using a community isolation facility to receive mild patients of COVID-19 as the daily additional cases h

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Japan's July factory activity extends declines into third quarter

Japan's factory activity contracted for a 15th straight month in July, indicating the economic pain from the coronavirus crisis extended into the third quarter of the year as hopes for a quick glo

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Africa Food Show opens to strengthen food value chains amid COVID-19 pandemic

Africa Food Show opened on Monday to strengthen food value chains amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, the event's organizers said. A press release from the organizers said that the event will virtu